Google Now 'Third-Largest' In Datacenter Processors
The Register, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Custom silicon mounting up, says report from semiconductor researcher TechInsights
Google announced a long-rumored datacenter CPU last month, but the Chocolate Factory may already be the third-largest designer of datacenter processors, according to research.
The search giant, like the other big cloud operators, makes its own custom silicon, in this case its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Although not offered for sale, shipments of Google's custom silicon for its own bit barns reached the 2 million mark last year, which semiconductor research outfit TechInsights believes puts it behind only Nvidia and Intel in terms of market share.